Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Crack had a massive impact on the Black community in the 1980s. It would ...

I have wanted to create a podcast like “Being Black: The ’80s” for years. I envisioned a show that lived at the intersection of culture and politics, a show that could explore how music relates to ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to author Donovan X. Ramsey about his new book, "When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era." It tells the story of the crack cocaine epidemic. One of ...

While crack cocaine seems to account for the rise in the murder rate of black youths in the 1980s, as well as more moderate increases in a wide range of adverse birth outcomes, the damaging social ...

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In United States drug policy, crack cocaine is the original sin. Jermichael Mitchell said he’s known heroin addicts all his life — it just wasn’t very popular. But crack was heavy. Growing up near ...

Stroud is a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. In The Souls of Black Folk, the sociologist W.E.B. DuBois posed a piercing question: “How does it feel to be a problem?” ...

OPINION: De La Soul’s “My Brother’s a Basehead” takes us into the impact of crack on its users and their families. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the ...

One of Donovan X. Ramsey's earliest childhood memories was of Michelle from down the street. DONOVAN X RAMSEY: Every night as I was falling asleep, she would start, you know, her activity. And that ...